On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:06:31AM +0100, Jan Fiala wrote: > I'm downloading the CD images using jigdo. Last time I did it it > seemed fine but this time jigdo connects and logs in with each > package. What a terrible waste of time! Is there a setting I can > set when starting jigdo or will I have to suffer through this with > the remaining CD images?
If all else fails, read the documentation. :-) The following file is probably installed on your system: file:///usr/share/doc/jigdo-file/debian-jigdo-mini-howto.html#AEN347 This points to one of the FAQs: 6.4. jigdo takes a bit long to download the files because wget keeps disconnecting and then reconnecting to the FTP server for each file. Is there a way to make it faster? The download speed can be increased by using an HTTP instead of an FTP server - FTP is not a very efficient protocol for downloading lots of small files. Additionally, you may want to upgrade to the latest version of wget, because that version supports persistent HTTP connections, which results in another slight speed increase. Unfortunately, even with persistent HTTP connections, the download speed will not be as high as that of a single-file ISO download. Such speeds can only be achieved with HTTP pipelining - the jigdo GUI application will support pipelining. So the most likely cause is that the previous time you tried jigdo you had it connect to an http and now to an ftp server, which according to this doc explains the difference. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
